The Top 20 Natural Monuments in South Hams
South Hams’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments in South Hams. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments in South Hams. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: October 8, 2025
The jagged coastline of the South Hams is a notorious ‘ship trap’, which it’s said was exploited by unscrupulous ‘wreckers’ who would lure vessels to their doom. The fables are …
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Dartmoor is home to more than 160 tors but Combestone Tor is one of the easiest to access by bike and car as the road passes right by. Not only …
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Gallants Bower is the remains of a fort built during the English Civil War. Today it's just the earth works and trees have grown on the slopes, but you can …
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Details of this swimming spot can be found on wildswim.com/blackpool-and-the-salmon-leaps.
From where comes this description:
"Blackpool could also be known as Mini Wellsfoot as here again the river makes a …
From where comes this description:
"Blackpool could also be known as Mini Wellsfoot as here again the river makes a …
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The former house and gardens of the chemist and inventor Otto Overbeck now belong to the National Trust.
The eccentric Otto designed, among other things, the "rejuvenation apparatus". Electrodes were …
The eccentric Otto designed, among other things, the "rejuvenation apparatus". Electrodes were …
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Dartmeet is the confluence of the East Dart and the West Dart. It’s a section of the Dart that is shallow, with numerous boulders and stepping stones that are both …
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The Yew in the churchyard of St Mary & St Gabriel is thought to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old. The carved wooden slices are from a Leyland Cyprus, …
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The way here is not difficult. From Salcombe take the ferry to Souths Sands and from there it is only a mile or two and you are on a lovely …
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Slapton Sands is an extremely picturesque beach that stretches for almost 2 miles (3.2 km) from Strete Gate to the village of Torcross. Slapton Ley is Devon’s largest natural freshwater …
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South Sands is one of the most unspoilt beaches in South Devon. It’s located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the mouth of the estuary. South Sands is …
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